His Holiness Patriarch Alexei II Of Moscow

by Igor Zenin

Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow stands in full ceremonial vestments, crozier in hand, a bank of dramatic storm cloud rolling behind him like it's paying its own kind of respect. Green and gold catch the light against all that gray, the one note of color in an otherwise somber sky. It's a portrait built for gravity, and it earns every bit of it.